Election day was filled with genuine emotions on Twitter, following months of sharp exchanges, too many jokes to count and memes. So many memes. Tuesday had its tense moments and also bursts of joy and disappointment.

[HF: I have selected my favorites]

Donald J. Trump -- He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!

Brent Black -- So a bunch of states have voted for gay marriage and legal marijuana. America is slowly learning how to party.

nascarcasm -- Colorado voted to legalize marijuana, because apparently being a mile high already just isn't quite high enough. # election2012

The part of the article referenced above that attracted my interest was the caution about why Michele Backmann attracts people and most importantly how reactions from people like me who belittle such sentiments can solidify and strengthen that support. Here is the excerpt that interested me:

Bachmann claimed that back in her college days, she was up one night praying with a female friend of hers when "the Lord gave each one of us the same, exact vision... It was a picture of me, marrying this man, in the valley where his parents have a farm in western Wisconsin." Meanwhile, miles away, Marcus "was repairing a fence on the farm where he worked, and the Lord showed him in a vision that he was supposed to marry me." According to Bachmann, Marcus initially complained to God that he wanted to see the world first, and only later relented. Snickering readers in New York or Los Angeles might be tempted by all of this to conclude that Bachmann is uniquely crazy. But in fact, such tales by Bachmann work precisely because there are a great many people in America just like Bachmann, people who believe that God tells them what condiments to put on their hamburgers, who can't tell the difference between Soviet Communism and a Stafford loan, but can certainly tell the difference between being mocked and being taken seriously. When you laugh at Michele Bachmann for going on MSNBC and blurting out that the moon is made of red communist cheese, these people don't learn that she is wrong. What they learn is that you're a dick, that they hate you more than ever, and that they're even more determined now to support anyone who promises not to laugh at their own visions and fantasies.